{"title":"Torres Irribarra's Perspective on Measurement: a Commentary.","authors":"Michael T Kane","doi":"10.1007/s12124-021-09650-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>David Torres Irribarra's new book (2021), A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement describes the most prominent definitions of measurement, which tend to focus on the properties of score scales, and offers a new definition of measurement based on the philosophy of Pragmatism. Torres Irribarra gives the purpose or goal of measurement a central role in his model, and treats measurements as tools for achieving these goals. His emphasis on particular relevant variables and on the intended use of measures of these variable to achieve a specific goals is akin to validity theory as practiced in educational and psychological measurement. The traditional definitions of measurement focus on abstract scaling models that can be applied equally well to a range of variables, but in practice, the uses of data in the social sciences do not usually require strong scaling assumptions. Torres Irribarra's definition requires that we attend to the specific interpretations and uses of the measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":" ","pages":"1480-1489"},"PeriodicalIF":17.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09650-8","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/2/21 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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David Torres Irribarra's new book (2021), A Pragmatic Perspective of Measurement describes the most prominent definitions of measurement, which tend to focus on the properties of score scales, and offers a new definition of measurement based on the philosophy of Pragmatism. Torres Irribarra gives the purpose or goal of measurement a central role in his model, and treats measurements as tools for achieving these goals. His emphasis on particular relevant variables and on the intended use of measures of these variable to achieve a specific goals is akin to validity theory as practiced in educational and psychological measurement. The traditional definitions of measurement focus on abstract scaling models that can be applied equally well to a range of variables, but in practice, the uses of data in the social sciences do not usually require strong scaling assumptions. Torres Irribarra's definition requires that we attend to the specific interpretations and uses of the measures.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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